When all else fails – Amateur Radio

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The new Emergency Operations Center (EOC) for Marathon County, WI was dedicated on Wednesday April 17, 2013. Located in the basement of the Wausau City Hall, the EOC is designed to help manage the response for natural disasters, severe weather, multi unit response fires, and large scale public events.
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With the recent passing of Dennis, W9PBB the Wausau area has lost a reliable outlet for passing National Traffic System (NTS) traffic into and out of our area. We are looking for one or more amateur radio operators with General class privileges that can reliably check into the HF traffic nets to ...

Marathon County ARES/RACES provided an amateur television (atv) link for the Wausau Fire Department as part of their planned response to Wausau's Rock the 400 Block concert event held on Saturday July 21, 2012.
The concert, an all day concert event, held in the downtown area on the 400 block green ...

Did you know that you can read the same reports that Wisconsin Emergency Management sends to Gov. Walker? You can! Just head over to the WEM website at http://emergencymanagement.wi.gov/ and you read the reports, and sign up to get those reports sent directly to your e-mail or twitter account.

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Welcome to the Marathon County Amateur Radio Emergency Service/Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service (ARES/RACES) webpage.

ARES is a corps of trained volunteer amateur radio operators that are organized to assist in public service and emergency communications. ARES is organized and sponsored by the American Radio Relay League.

RACES is a standby radio service provided for in Part 97.407 of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rules and regulations governing amateur radio in the United States.

Communication failures have been a defining part of natural disasters and even some human-generated events such as the September 11 attacks that occurred in New York City in 2001. A lack of communication between firefighters at the World Trade Center contributed directly to the deaths of 300 of those firefighters. Amateur radio provides a means of communication “when all else fails.”